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Yeah, Selma. For every time the Ku Klux Klan committed a racist crime,
our grandparents should have loudly apologised, or at least proclaimed
their dislike of the same. Since they didn't, we should be doing so.
And don't forget all those other crimes carried out in the names of
religions/belief systems/ideologies/national identities that we carry
along with us!
In this part of the globe, everytime India plays Pakistan, the
Muslims here have to once again prove their patriotism. (Nobody asked
questions, as far as I can remember, when Goan women supported
Scandinavian football players in a match some years ago... and nothing
wrong with that either! It's just a choice everyone exercises, and
there are complex reasons why we make such choices.)
We're you ever asked to prove your liberal or tolerant bonafides just
because of the religious tradition you belong to, or the shade of your
skin colour?
When there are so many diverse Mulims around the globe, why does the
media focus just on the intolerant fringe within that culture and
religion? It's like the media showing Goans as drunks and vamps ...
even though there are so many of us sober guys and teetotallers
around!
What you see, and how you perceive the world, also depends on which
spectacles you choose to see it through. I would suggest the dominant
media in the West is suffering from an acute perspective problem as
far as Islam and its people currently go. And, everyone tends to get
infected by this, even if you generally depend on alternative sources
for your perspectives.
My visits to Malaysia and Bangladesh never once (except at the time of
Friday Jumma prayers, in Dhaka, which coincided with our meal-time)
reminded me I was in a different religious sphere. People there very
much wanted the same things we are after in life: a less dehumanising
and more meaningful existence. That's all.... or at least, that's how
I perceived it.
But then maybe I wasnt' bombarded by this Islam=extremist=terrorist
filters that people who watch CNN, and read TIME get their dose of
(like pesticides in our cold-drinks!)
FN
On 21/09/06, Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The silence from their so-called voice of moderation
> is deafening, while fatwas are pronounced, holy-wars
> are incited against the infidels, beheadings are
> carried out under Sharia law, planes and towers are
> brought down in the name of Allah, embassies are
> burned to the ground on the flimsiest of excuses.
> Meanwhile the world is held hostage to Muslim
> sentiments outraged by cartoons and speeches.
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